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24 places in the atlas, 1 of them inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Ancient city
Classical literature (350 BCE Theopompus – quoted 2nd c. CE Aelian) · Chian Greek paradoxography
Theopompus 350 BCE satirical Atlantic island with two million-man cities — direct parody of Plato's Atlantis two generations later.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Ancient city
Medieval cartographic (1424 Pizzigano – 1492 Columbus) · Pizzigano–Portuguese cartographic
1424 Pizzigano rectangular 'Seven Cities' phantom west of Azores — Columbus' waypoint to Cipangu before Antilia arch.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Archaeological wonder
Medieval–Modern cartography (1367 Pizzigani – 1906) · Italian Majorcan–Bristol cartographic
Much-copied Atlantic crescent since 1367 — crescent concave east at 46N 20W surviving to Admiralty 1906.
